American Idol’s Danny Gokey has officially gone country. He signed a record deal with 19 Recordings/RCA Nashville. It’s the first time in American Idol’s history that the entire final four have been signed to a deal with 19 Recordings.
Danny will head to a Nashville studio shortly after the Idols tour ends September 15. According to an article in USA TODAY, there is no producer attached to Danny’s album yet.
He is expected to release a single in late fall and an album in the spring.
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Not impressed by this at all. He never showed any interest in country music while on the show. Aside from butchering Jesus Take The Wheel (which he only sang because it was Opry week), he never sang anything that sounded remotely country. Why is it that artists who won’t ever make it big in pop or rock think they can just jump into country music and be wildly successful? I don’t get it. Don’t get me wrong, Gokey can sing…but I’m not too thrilled about this.
Perhaps Keith Urban would produce his album. That would be way too cool!
Kristi, I may be wrong but he also sang What Hurts the Most. At least he did when he was doing press after he voted off the show. To me that sounded a lot better then JTTW that he did on the show.
You are right, I think I do remember him singing that at one point. I forgot. However, I heard this morning that he said in an interview that he had no idea what the Opry was until they had the Opry Week theme. That doesn’t sound like someone whose heart is in country music. Haha.
Danny is such a great natural talent with a heart for music and people. It will be great to see him tackling some new music in the country scene. I remember that interview about the Opry. There was a question about the AI show which had a “theme” of Grand Ole Opry week. Danny mentioned he hadn’t been quite sure what songs would fit that, and had selected the recent Carrie Underwood song that he thought the audience would be familiar with. Danny did not say that he doesn’t know what the Opry is. He may well have visited there as he has family in Nashville as well as ties there for past recordings of worship music, and his charitable foundation honoring his late wife.
Also, one of Danny’s first two song choices after his audition was I Hope You Dance, the Lee Ann Womack song.
He did a great job.
[...] CMTT told you a few months ago Danny Gokey who said country music wasn’t his style ended up signing a country music record deal. So he has already hit the ground running with some PO’ed country music fans. The original single from his first album was expected to be a ballad called “It’s Only” but RCA Records Nashville has made the decision to go with the uptempo song “My Best Days Are in Front of Me”. “I love this song for what it stands for,” says Danny, who recently performed a shortened version of the song on Los Angeles TV station KTLA. “I don’t live in the past. I live in the ‘now’ … in the future … and in the dreams that I have. I know that my best days really are ahead of me.” [...]